This is the list of the 112 books I read in 2009, in the order that I read them. For an explanation of my rating system, see here.
Water the Bamboo by Greg Bell (reviewed here; 4/5)
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (on the MLA's Top 30 list and the College Board's Top 101 list)
Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey (4.5/5) (on the Top 20 Oregon books list)
Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger (reviewed here; 4/5)
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver (reviewed here; 2.5/5)
Blackbird, Farewell by Robert Greer (reviewed here; 2/5)
Out of the Deep I Cry by Julia Spencer-Fleming (3.5/5)
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley (2.5/5)
Entres Nous: A Woman's Guide to Finding Her Inner French Girl by Debra Ollivier (which inspired my French Connections list; reviewed here; 3.5/5)
Black Cherry Blues by James Lee Burke (3.5/5)
Native America, Discovered and Conquered by Robert Miller (reviewed here; 3.5/5)
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut (3/5)
The Top 10 Myths of American Health Care by Sally Pipes (reviewed here; 4/5)
The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard (National Book Award winner; 3.5/5)
Prisoner of the Vatican by David Kertzer (2.5/5)
The River Why by David James Duncan (3/5)
Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali (4/5)
Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse (3.5/5)
Crime and Punishment by Foyder Dostoevsky (on the Easton Press Top 100 list; 4.5/5)
Towers of Gold by Frances Dinkelspiel (reviewed here; 3.5/5)
The Innocent by Ian McEwan (reviewed here; 3.5/5)
The Letter from Death by Lillian Moats (reviewed here; 1.5/5)
The Amateur Marriage by Anne Tyler (3.5/5)
Basil's Dream by Christine Hale (reviewed here; 3.5/5)
The Stettheimer Dollhouse, edited by Sheila Clark (on my LibraryThing Early Reviewer list; reviewed here; 3.5/5)
Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis (4/5)
Pagan Babies by Elmore Leonard (3/5)
Red Square by Martin Cruz Smith (reviewed here; 3.5/5)
The Mating Season by P. G. Wodehouse (3.5/5)
The Alteration by Kinglsey Amis (3.5/5)
Davita's Harp by Chiam Potok (3.5/5)
Skeletons on the Zahara by Dean King(discussed here; 3/5)
Saturday by Ian McEwan (James Tate Black winner; 3.5/5)
The Floating Opera by John Barth (reviewed here; 3.5/5)
Nell Hill's Style at Home by Mary Carol (3.5/5)
Inside the Red Mansion by Oliver August (reviewed here; 3/5)
March by Geraldine Brooks (Pulitzer Prize winner; reviewed here; 3/5)
Atget's Paris, published by Taschen (3/5)
Advise and Consent by Allen Drury (Pulitzer Prize winner; reviewed here; 4/5)
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame (on the BBC's Big Read list, the Observer's Top 100 list, and the MLA's Top 30 list; reviewed here; 4/5)
My Uncle Oswald by Roald Dahl (reviewed here; 3/5)
Wall Street by Steve Fraser (reviewed here; 2.5/5)
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris (reviewed here; 3/5)
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby (reviewed here; 4/5)
Birds by Jeff Fisher (4/5)
The Miserable Mill by Lemony Snicket (3/5)
The Beggar by Naguib Mafouz (Nobel Laureate; reviewed here; 3.5/5)
Black Boy (American Hunger) by Richard Wright (reviewed here; 3/5)
Changing Places by David Lodge (reviewed here; 4/5)
My Latest Grievance by Elinor Lipman (reviewed here; 3.5/5)
That's Amore! The Language of Love for Lovers of Language by Erin McKean (3/5)
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith (4/5)
The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien (the All-TIME 100 list, the BBC Big Read, the MLA's Top 30 list, Radcliffe's Top 100 list, and the Observer's Top 100 list; 3/5)
After Dinner Speaking by Fawcett Boom (reviewed here; 3/5)
Stylish Sheds and Elegant Hideaways: Big Ideas for Small Backyard Destinations by Debra Prinzing (reviewed here; 4/5)
Super Sunday in Newport by Matt Love (2.5/5)
Pegasus Descending by James Lee Burke (3.5/5)
Au Revoir to All That by Michael Steinberger (on my French Connection list; reviewed here; 3.5/5)
The Brothers K by David James Duncan (reviewed here; 3.5/5)
Hemingway and Bailey's Bartending Guide to Great American Writers by Edward Hemingway and Mark Bailey (3/5)
The Fixer by Bernard Malamud (National Book Award winner; Pulitzer Prize winner; reviewed here; 4/5)
Wild Fire by Nelson DeMille (3/5)
Forbidden Bread by Erica Johnson-Debeljak (on my LibraryThing Early Reviewer list; reviewed here; 3.5/5)
To Darkness and to Death by Julia Spencer-Fleming (reviewed here; 3/5)
Doctor Sally by P. G. Wodehouse (3/5)
Goodbye, Columbus by Philip Roth (National Book Award winner; reviewed here; 4/5)
Blue Planet in Green Shackles by Vaclav Klaus (reviewed here; 3.5/5)
Underworld by Don DeLillo (reviewed here; 2.5/5)
Dreams by Sigmund Freud (2.5/5)
Paul Newman: A Life by Shaun Levy (reviewed here; 4/5)
Shalimar the Clown by Salomon Rushdie (3/5)
The Tin Roof Blowdown by James Lee Burke (reviewed here; 3.5/5)
The Last Chinese Chef by Nicole Mones (reviewed here; 3.5/5)
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audry Niffinger (2.5/5)
Plainsong by Ken Haruf (3/5)
All Mortal Flesh by Julia Spencer-Fleming (reviewed here; 3.5/5)
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (on the BBC's Big Read list, the College Board list, and the Easton Press Top 100 list; 3.5/5)
Brick Lane by Monica Ali (3/5)
American Rust by Philip Meyer (on my LibraryThing Early Reviewer list; reviewed here; 2.5/5)
The Plague by Albert Camus (Nobel Laureate; on the Observer's Top 100 list; 3/5)
Julie and Julia by Julie Powell (reviewed here; 2.5/5)
Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson (Costa Book Award winner; reviewed here; 3.5/5)
Ice Chorus by Susan Stonich (reviewed here; 3.5/5)
Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin (4/5)
The Silver Palate Cookbook by Sheila Lukins and Julie Russo (reviewed here; 4/5)
Stalin's Ghost by Martin Cruz Smith (3.5/5)
Laughing Gas by P. G. Wodehouse (3/5)
Joker One by Donovan Campbell (on my LibraryThing Early Reviewer list; reviewed here; 4/5)
Freddy and Fredericka by Mark Helprin (reviewed here; 3.5/5)
The Man Who Loved China by Simon Winchester (reviewed here; 4/5)
The Family Man by Elinor Lipman (3/5)
The Age of Reagan, Vol. 2 by Steven Hayward (reviewed here; 4/5)
Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington (Pulitzer Prize winner; reviewed here; 2.5/5)
Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay (2.5/5)
The Complete Short Stories* by Ernest Hemingway (Nobel Laureate; reviewed here; 3.5/5)
The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney (Costa Book Award winner; reviewed here; 4/5)
The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton (3/5)
Incidents in the Rue Laguier by Anita Brookner (reviewed here; 3/5)
Massacred for Gold by Gregory Nokes (reviewed here; 3.5/5)
A Century of November by W. D. Wetherell (reviewed here; 3.5/5)
Good for the Jews by Debra Spark (reviewed here; 3.5/5)
Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon (3/5)
The Tricking of Freya by Christina Sunley (on my LibraryThing Early Reviewer list; reviewed here; 3.5/5)
The Italian Lover by Robert Hellinga (reviewed here; 2.5/5)
The Fire by Katherine Neville (on my LibraryThing Early Reviewer list; reviewed here; 2/5)
How to Save Your Own Life by Erica Jong (reviewed here; 3.5/5)
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham (reviewed here; 3.5/5)
The Inn at Lake Divine by Elinor Lipman (3.5)
Blue River by Ethan Canin (reviewed here; 2/5)
Betrayal by John Lescroart (3/5)
* The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway includes all the stories published in several separate volumes, plus additional others. I counted this as one book, but the separate volumes subsumed by this omnibus are: In Our Time (on the Radcliffe Top 100 list), Men Without Women (on the Observer's Top 100 list), The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories, The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories, The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber and Other Stories, The Nick Adams Stories, and maybe others.
